A new report fresh from the U.S. Centres for Disease Control and Prevention highlights the stark difference between covid-19 and the seasonal flu. For hospitalised patients, the report found, the risk of serious complications like pneumonia and shock was significantly higher from covid-19 than from the flu. People hospitalised with…
The start of the covid-19 pandemic in the U.S. may have been earlier and far larger than official records indicate, according to a new study. Researchers found that a substantial portion of people, including children, in Seattle who were suspected of having the flu this past Northern Hemisphere winter likely…
On Monday, President Donald Trump once again tried to downplay the seriousness of the coronavirus outbreak that’s now hit over 100 countries and begun spreading within the U.S. He tweeted that the seasonal flu has killed over 37,000 Americans this winter”far more than the 22 deaths from COVID-19 that had…
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